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Archive for February, 2008
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Might As Well Face It, You’re Addicted To Control Languages
Posted on February 29, 2008 | 1 CommentI could have gone a couple of different ways with the title, including “You alright! I learned it from watching you!” and “I’m not the one with a problem, you are”, but instead I went for the late great Robert Palmer. But the point of... -
ASIC Debate Redux
Posted on February 28, 2008 | No CommentsBack in 2000, I wrote an article entitled “Parsing With Precision” for Network World Magazine. The gist of the article is that x86-based load balancers were going the way of the dinosaurs, and switch-based (and thus ASIC-based) load balancers were the future. The reason was... -
IPV6: The Sky Is Falling
Posted on February 24, 2008 | No CommentsIf you’re like me, not long after you learned about the IP protocol, someone told you about the eminent IP address crisis. For me, it was the late 90′s, and the warning was “someday man, someday” from a guy who probably thought we faked the... -
New SLB Vendor: Exceliance of Paris, France
Posted on February 24, 2008 | No CommentsI received an email from a previously unmentioned-by-me vendor named Exceliance. Based outside of Paris, France, they provide an HA Proxy/LVS-based appliance, and boast the HA Proxy’s author as it’s founder. Worth a look, especially if you’re in Europe. -
Cisco CSS Replacements
Posted on February 12, 2008 | No CommentsThere was a post today on the lb-l mailing list asking about alternatives to Cisco’s CSS. This is part of a trend I’ve noticed lately, where people who have an existing Cisco CSS installation are looking to replace that gear with new gear. Cisco CSS... -
Oh Hai! I Are Ginormous!
Posted on February 11, 2008 | No CommentsSorry for the reference to lol cats, but unfortunately I am incapable of helping myself. F5 released their new blade-chassis box, the VIPRION, a few weeks ago. The VIPRION boasts 36 GBits of Layer 7 traffic and 200,000 SSL TPS. Lori Mac Vittie does an... -
Radware SIP Load Balancer
Posted on February 6, 2008 | No CommentsRadware recently announced a new SIP offering, The SIP Director ADC (Application Delivery Controller). See full press release here. -
KEMP In The News
Posted on February 6, 2008 | 1 CommentSpeaking of Windows executable application delivery (WEAD?), KEMP released a new version of their LoadMaster code geared towards users of Windows Terminal Services. Brian Madden put up a good article on it at brianmadden.com. There’s an eWeek story covering this as well. The gist of... -
Vendor News and Press Releases
Posted on February 6, 2008 | No CommentsWith more frequency, I’m being approached by vendors with news and announcements, so starting now I will be posting press releases/announcements that vendors forward to me and would like to see up If you’re a vendor, and have a release or product announcement you’d like... -
Another Definition For Application Delivery
Posted on February 2, 2008 | No CommentsI got the chance to talk to Brian MaddenBeruhmte casino. today, who runs the Citrix uber-site brianmadden.com, which is a great resource for all things Citrix/Virtualization/Application Delivery. We were talking about application delivery, when it hit me that we were talking about two separate concepts. ...